Gordon Brown Quotes
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Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability
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Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential
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No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
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The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.
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I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.
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Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.
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...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early
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I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn.
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I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen.
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In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
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I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.
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The IIFA Weekend has my unprecedented support. The relationship between India and the UK is long standing and one we would like to keep developing forever.
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I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
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The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered
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There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.
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Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.
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My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.
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We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions.
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I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.
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We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state.
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I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.
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Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?
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...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
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Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge
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What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.
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Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.
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I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.
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We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.
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America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.
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Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.
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Gordon Brown
- Born: February 20, 1951
- Died: March 19, 2001
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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